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Book Review: Unless you are an accountant or a corporate lawyer, a history of Canadian tax policy will not be at the top of your reading list. But here are two books that show how a topic’s importance should rank ahead of its popularity — and it helps that both books are very entertaining.

Book Review: Heaman is based at McGill University and begins her book with wry comments on how tax history must seem “the most boring work imaginable.”

Book Review: This book is an illustrated history focussing on images of Sir John Franklin artifacts, maps, written documents, paintings, and wood engravings.

Book Review: Michael Palin’s book Erebus treats the larger history of HMS Erebus throughout its long history with the British navy.

Canadians played key role in creation of UN human rights declaration.

A look back at select moments from British Columbia’s history.

In this lesson, students will analyze artifacts to learn about the experiences of Black sleeping car porters on the job. 

On the home front in World War II, Canadians lived a contradiction. They were told to save. And asked to spend.

In the Great War, the Canadian state found itself fighting two fronts. And the historical irony is striking: while thousands of working-class men and women were marched off to Europe, ostensibly to defend the rights and freedoms of democracy against tyranny, such highly prized ideals were routinely—and often severely—violated at home.